Outlook 2003 can not connect to POP3 any longer

[Mike Dunn]

Over this past weekend Outlook 2003 lost it's ability to connect to a POP3
server that I have had a working connection with for the past 2 years. I
could not find any info in relation to this months security updates that
relate to this issue. I have connected to the same POP3 server using a
different workstation on the smae network without issue. All 3 client users
on the workstation are affected.
In addition Outlook Express gives the cannot find msoe.dll error when trying
to open. I suspect, but am ot sure that these 2 issues are related. I have
recreated the client connections, uninstalled and reinstalled office and
dowloaded every patch and fix available.
Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.

 

[Rich]

If you think you have isolated the probelm at the client end, then try
downloading a free mail client like Thunderbird www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/
and see if you can connect with that.

If you can then great, it's a problem with your mail client, you can try and
reinstall, or just continue to use Thunderbird. If that doesn't fix it,
hmmm, dunno.